HIST 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Little Bighorn River, Wounded Knee Massacre, Dawes Act
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The settlement of the west: western settlement was driven by easterners and midwesterners who were drawn to the. West by the lure of land: they intended to make their living from either mining gold or silver; raising cattle for eastern markets, or farming (these people were derisively called. In 1865, there were about 250,000 native americans on the great plains: beginning in the 1860s, and extending into the 1880s, there were a number of. River in the montana territory: present at the battle was sitting bull, a famous cheyenne medicine man. The dawes severalty act 1887: this was a well intentioned disaster that tried to do, it tried to get indians to give up tribalism in favor of the white man"s system of representative government. Farmers , the best land was acquired by white speculators who sold it off to the highest bidder.
